"Felled by the hand of a dastardly assassin, our beloved President has passed into the Great Beyond, and our Nation in in gloom...As a token of the respect in which we held him, and as a tribute to his memory, I would request that all flags in our...

Address delivered at the Government Street Church, Mobile, Thursday morning, Jan. 28, 1847, over the remains of Zebulon Montgomery Pike Inge, who fell gallantly fighting May 9, 1846, at the head of his platoon of the 2d U.S. Dragoons, in the...